Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order to get their hands on her unclaimed inheritance. They plough all the proper aristocratic graces and memories into the haunted girl, and finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real Anastasia, so that the film clearly believes in Santa Claus. Unfortunately Santa Claus runs away with Yul Brynner. She renounces imminent royal recognition for love in a moderately tear-jerking, immoderately unconvincing...
...excellent, haunting portrayal of the princess. From a superb portrait of the starved, hollow-faced, forlorn girl she grows with great refinement into the true princess. As her mentor, unfortunately, Yul Brynner demonstrates exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded, and American, rarely becomes the countenance of an empress...
Acknowledging that he was the pleased catcher of the bride's bouquet, Chicago Grass Widower Adlai Stevenson, 56, a guest at the recent marriage of his distant cousin Helen Stevenson to New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (TIME, Jan. 28), seemed bleakly bereft of romance, though confessing that he would like to rate as eligible: "I hope the bouquet portends something, but I'm inured to disappointments...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Helen Traubel. Peter (Li'l Abner) Palmer, Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, Joey Bishop (color...
Married. Robert Baumle Meyner, 48, Democratic governor of New Jersey since 1954; and Helen Day (Danie) Stevenson, 28, brunette third cousin (by marriage, on the maternal side; the name Stevenson is a coincidence) of Adlai Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson, president of Oberlin College; in Oberlin, Ohio...